Week 2
Hello!
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend! My husband and I are moving to Mesa, so we spent the weekend decluttering closets and deep-cleaning carpets. It's so nice to have a clean home!
Our field trip to the Musical Instrument Museum will be Friday, February 2. Please keep an eye out for an email containing more information about that later this week.
Academic overview:
We will finish Robin Hood this week. On Monday, January 22, we will have a culminating activity and on Tuesday, January 23 we will have the final test on Robin Hood. Our next book will be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum. I have placed a picture of the cover under Current Literature in the left margin. Please make sure your child has this version.
In math this week, we will be starting a new unit on decimals. We will introduce the tenths place this week and do a lot of practice with manipulatives as we approach this new topic.
This week in history we will continue our study of African Kingdoms. We will focus on the Trans-Sahara Trade and how trade helped to spread ideas across Africa. We will also study several important Kingdoms including Ghana and Mali, as well the impact of Mali's Mansa Musa and his pilgrimage to Mecca.
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend! My husband and I are moving to Mesa, so we spent the weekend decluttering closets and deep-cleaning carpets. It's so nice to have a clean home!
Our field trip to the Musical Instrument Museum will be Friday, February 2. Please keep an eye out for an email containing more information about that later this week.
Academic overview:
We will finish Robin Hood this week. On Monday, January 22, we will have a culminating activity and on Tuesday, January 23 we will have the final test on Robin Hood. Our next book will be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum. I have placed a picture of the cover under Current Literature in the left margin. Please make sure your child has this version.
In math this week, we will be starting a new unit on decimals. We will introduce the tenths place this week and do a lot of practice with manipulatives as we approach this new topic.
This week in history we will continue our study of African Kingdoms. We will focus on the Trans-Sahara Trade and how trade helped to spread ideas across Africa. We will also study several important Kingdoms including Ghana and Mali, as well the impact of Mali's Mansa Musa and his pilgrimage to Mecca.
This week in science, we will conclude our study of meteorology
with a quiz on 1/16. We will study the three types of rocks, how they form, the
rock cycle, and weathering.
Have a great week!